Mesopotamiann.adj.

1553 C. Tye Actes of Apostles (new ed.) ii. sig. B.v^v Heare we then, eche one his tongue Wherein right borne were we. Parthians, Medes, and Elamits Mesopotamians.

1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke x. sig. Fv The Chaldeans, Mesapotamians and Assyrians were moued and stirred against him.

1595 A. Hartwell tr. G. T. Minadoi Hist. Warres Turkes & Persians sig. HHh1 ^v (table) Caraemit..is now the Metropoliticall Citie of the Mesopotamians.

1616 T. Coryate Traveller for Eng. Wits 42 Your generosities most obliged Countreyman,..the Hierosolymitan - Syrian - Mesopotamian - Armenian - Median.., Thomas Coryate.

1667 A. Woodhead Guide to Controversies Relig. ii. xi. §176. 308 The Assyrians, Persians, and Mesopotamians, are ranged also under a new Patriarch.

1789 J. O'Keeffe Little Hunch-back i. iii. 8 He has got introducing some of the Mesopotamian Plenipo's.

1847 Commerc. Rev. South & West Nov. 373 The Bible affords us innumerable evidences of the extensive flocks of the Mesopotamians, Syrians, Tyrians, etc.

1882 J. Ballingal tr. C. P. Tiele Compar. Hist. Egyptian Relig. i. 7 The all but universally accepted opinion was that the Egyptians should be set apart as a race different from both Aryans and Mesopotamians.

1911 L. R. Farnell Greece & Babylon ix. 172 An extraordinary vein of grossness, that seems to mark off these Aryan peoples sharply from the Mesopotamians.

1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) v. 55 It is nowadays thought unlikely that the Mesopotamians who came to Egypt on the eve of the Dynastic period were anything more than merchants, technicians and possibly mercenaries.

1777 J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. The..Mesopotamian dialect of the Syriac.

1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 246 Such men as Balaam, the Mesopotamian prophet, and Goliah..have perpetuated their names only as memorials of the evil they did to their country and their race.

1880 R. S. Poole in Encycl. Brit. XI. 808/2 Mesopotamian cuneiform.

1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans vi. 175 A North Syrian group which received accretions from Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hittite, Amorite, and perhaps other sources.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 820/1 Because religion provided the only total view of existence in ancient Mesopotamian civilization, religious themes, attitudes, and presuppositions were frequently included in quasi-secular writings.

1998 D. Bellos et al. tr. G. Ifrah Universal Hist. Numbers xiii. 161/1 Coded cryptograms were also used in theological speculation, for Mesopotamian scribes accorded great weight to the numerical transposition of the names of the gods.